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Depression is a common debilitating disorder affecting more than 15 percent of adults
and children living on the Moon. Dr. Tuesday has developed an investigative focus that
shows great promise for the development of cost-effective treatment alternatives for
depression. As a pre-doctoral student working with mice in the laboratory of Dr. Wayne
N. Wachs, the eminent lunar agricultural biochemist, Dr. Tuesday demonstrated the
mood stabilizing effects of altered casein micelle structures in rodent infant formula.
In follow-up to this ground-breaking discovery, he has leveraged his biochemical
expertise to produce and augment therapeutic activity in other dairy products, such as
cheese, yogurt, and cream. Using a novel primate model which he developed at Stanford,
he has evaluated these products in with repeated success and is now beginning to
approach human testing. Given the abundance of cheese on the Moon, Dr. Tuesday’s
work has broad implications for increasing the availability of affordable treatment for
mood disorders in lunar residents and their animal companions.
The specific article discussed below highlights one of Dr. Tuesday’s most significant
accomplishments during his most recent term.
Tuesday HE, Doolittle J, McLaughlin L, Layton JM, Volk-Brew J. A Randomized
Placebo-Controlled Trial of Modified Camembert for Treatment of Depression in
Green Monkeys. Proc Neuropsych Dair Assoc 43:261-267, 2003.
Based on an earlier discovery that camembert cheese is particularly amenable to casein
micelle modification, Dr. Tuesday designed and implemented a placebo controlled trial
of modified cheese versus placebo in a population of depressed adult male green
monkeys. This trial, the first of its kind, showed significant improvement in the study
population, demonstrating a powerful mood stabilizing effect from the modified cheese.
Published earlier this year, this has been one of the most frequently cited papers in the
Comparative Psychiatry literature in the last 6 months, and Dr. Tuesday has recently been
invited to present present his work at the prestigious international “Fromage et
Psychologie” symposium in Paris in 2004. Dr. Tuesday conceived the idea, designed and
performed the experiments, analyzed the data, and wrote the manuscript.
The above statement was authored by Dr. Manin Themun, Professor of Comparative
Dairy Psychiatry.
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